An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect the first rich population of brown dwarf candidates outside the Milky Way in the star cluster NGC 602. París, October 24, 2024.- Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200Continuar Leyendo
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colourful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Hubble’s images capture its details and its evolution is featured by a unique timelapse video. París, Oct 16, 2024.-Continuar Leyendo
París, October 14, 2024.- ESA has taken another important step on the road towards sustainability in space with its first in-orbit servicing mission RISE. A €119 million contract was signed with D-Orbit as the co-funding prime contractor. RISE is a commercial in-orbit servicing mission that will demonstrate that it canContinuar Leyendo
París, Oct 07, 2024.- At ESA’s ESOC mission control centre, in Darmstadt, Germany, every launch is preceded by the pre-launch briefing – and the all-important team photos. The next spacecraft to be flown from ESOC, Hera, is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a SpaceX FalconContinuar Leyendo
Looking deep into the early universe with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars. París, Sept 25, 2024.- Found approximately one billion years after the big bang, galaxy GS-NDG-9422 (9422)Continuar Leyendo
An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a larger spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright ‘eyes’ and the wide semicircular ‘smile’ that have resulted. This image is a composite, combining observations from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-InfraRedContinuar Leyendo
With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early Universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holesContinuar Leyendo
In the USA, the world’s most extensive neutrino experiment, DUNE, is being built at Fermilab. The University of Bern is playing a key role in this by developing the “ND-LAr” detector, which features new technology and an innovative design to observe neutrinos. The prototype of the “ND-LAr” has now beenContinuar Leyendo
The effects of the climate crisis are felt more acutely in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. The weather in the Arctic is not only severe, but it changes extremely quickly. More frequent data are urgently needed to improve weather forecasts for this susceptible polar region. Enter ESA’sContinuar Leyendo
ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion. París, Aug 08, 2024.- Previously, Gaia had explored asteroids known to have moons — so-called ‘binary asteroids’ — and confirmed that the telltaleContinuar Leyendo
